Bright, strange characters and environments illustrated by Ana Tortos

Date
4 March 2015

To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of French eco-building company Nobatek, London-based animator Ana Tortos designed and illustrated a book and made an animation, as well as a series of wood-panel illustrations for the interior of the Nobatek office. A huge undertaking, the project tells the story of the growth of the company through its various projects developing grass roofing, soundproof roads made of recycled tires and utilising the digestive system of earthworms to get rid of trash.

What is already an interesting story is made even more vivid by Ana’s illustrations. There are lots of bright, bobbly-headed characters interacting with each other, their surroundings, letterforms and huge oblique mechanisms, and it looks like great fun. This project should be taken as a fine example of bringing longevity and broader relevance to corporate publications; Ana’s playful layout, the interplay between text and image and brilliant colour palette really bring the content to life.

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Ana Tortos: Nobatek anniversary

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Ana Tortos: Nobatek anniversary

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Ana Tortos: Nobatek anniversary

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Ana Tortos: Nobatek anniversary

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Ana Tortos: Nobatek anniversary

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Ana Tortos: Nobatek anniversary

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Ana Tortos: Nobatek anniversary

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Billie Muraben

Billie studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art before completing an MA in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art. She joined It’s Nice That as a Freelance Editorial Assistant back in January 2015 and continues to work with us on a freelance basis.

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